Refrigerator frame



Aug. 21, 1934. R. E. GRAY REFRIGERATOR FRAME Filed Feb. 10, 1955 2Sheets-Sheet l fiahardEG ay.

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REFRIGERATORYFRAME Filed Feb. 10, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE REFRIGERATOR FRAME Richard E. Gray, Jackson, Tenn.,assignor to Piggly Wiggly Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, a corporationof Delaware Application February 10, 1933, Serial No. 656,181

2 Claims. (01. 220-9) This invention relates to refrigerator cabinetsmembers 10, 11 or 12, as is best shown in Figures and particularly tothe frame and the insulating 3 and 7. From this construction it will beapstructure of the cabinet. parent that the interior of the cabinet isfully An object is to provide better heat insulation insulated againstheat transfer between the 5 for such cabinets. As a means to this endone outer and inner walls of the cabinet. The frame purpose, is toprovide new and improved frame structureprovides the necessary strengthto the structure by. which better heat insulation is cabinet and is soinsulated as to prevent heat secured. exchange through the walls of thecabinet.

Referring to the accompanying drawings While a particular constructionof frame is which are made a part hereof and on which shown it should beobvious that the invention 65 similar reference characters indicatesimilar is not limited by the showing since the invention parts. residesbroadly in providing a frame which may Figure l is a fragmentaryperspective of th be insulated so that at no place in the wall is framefor the cabinet, there a direct connection through the frame be- Figure2, a horizontal section, tween the lining and outer wall of the cabinet.70

Figure 3, a side elevation with 'a portion shown It will be obvious tothose skilled in the art in section, that various changes may be made inmy de- Figure 4, a perspective view of a portion of the Vice Withoutdeparting from the Spi it Of the frame for th bin t, invention andtherefore I do not limit myself to Figure 5, t o on line 5 5 f Figure 1,what is shown in the drawings and described 75 Figure 6, a section online 66 of Figure 1, in the specification, but only as indicated by theFigure 7, an enlarged view of the ti appended claims.

shown in Figure 1, and 7 Having thus fully described my said inven-Figure 8, a sectio on li 3 g of Figure 7 tion, what I claim as new anddesire to secure In t drawings numeral 10 indicates hori by LettersPatent, is:- 8

zontal frame portions and 11 upright frame por- A refrigerator cabinetComprising a base t t lower ends f which fit Within and formed of aplurality of horizontal bars arranged are Secured t t horizontal frmembers in rectangular formation, vertical bars positioned 10 as bymeans of pins or nails 13. Lateral on the inner vertical surfaces ofsaid horizonframe members 12 are secured in and between tal bars, acasing secured to the outside surfaces opposing upright, members 11 bynails or pins as of said horizontal bars, a plurality of lateral shown,The top and bottom of the Cabinet will bars connected tosaid verticalbars being spaced be of t Same t t such as that shown in from the bottomsurfaces of said horizontal bars, perspective in Figure 1. Suitableinsulating maa lining Securedto the inner Surfaces of said terial 14 isplaced within and nfi d between vertical and said lateral bars andinsulating maan inner metallic lining l8 and an outer casing FPpositioned between said casing and Said 19' The insulating material maybe and pref lining around said bars, substantially as set erably iscork. This cork may be in finely forth" divided form and packed in orsecured together A refngeraftor cabltlet comprising horizon by aSuitable binding material or may be in tal frame portions havinguprights secured at sheet form. The insulating material will an in endsthe inner Vertical surfaces 0f Said as a Solid Sheet the Space confinedWithin the horizontal frame portions, lateral members selower framemembers 10 between the bottom cured to and between said uprights.beingspaced of the casing 19 and will fill in the spaces formed from thePottom sulfaces of Sald honzontal by the lateral members 12. When theinsulating frame portlons a casmg S's-cured the outside material hasbeen applied within and about the and.bottom.sl.1rfaces of Samhorizontal frame frame work it will be apparent as may be seen portlons,a hmng secured to the inner surfaces from Figures 3 and 7 that theinterior of the lateral membeltgand sald uprigmjs 1 50 cabinet isinsulated from the outside wall by ifi matellal positioned between saidlina thickness of insulating material which is at f i :fi he framewolksubstan' least half the total insulating material between y as Se or thelining 18 and the outer wall 19, i. e. at no RICHARD GRAY place in thewall of the cabinet is the insulating 55 material thinner than the widthof one of the 10

